Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-27
NORTH CAROLINA.
xxws MOTIFS GATHERED HERR AND
THERE AT RALEiaH.
A feasible rhing--A Young Lady Killed
They Will Not come-aensral
Notes.
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RALEI3I, n. c., October 26.-The
colored people have done very sensi.
bic thing. This afternoon they de.
cided 70 continue their State fair all
next week. Governor Scales expected
to 60 TO Hickory yesterday to deliver
an address at the fair there. The
weather was so bad that he could not
go. Last night he telegraphed that the
weather permitting he would leave here
tomorrow and be there Friday.
Linehan & Co., of Granite, this
State, have just made a contract TO fur
nish fifty-flvc hundred tons of Belgian
block pavement for Norfolk.
G. 4. Raymond, grocer, of Charlotte,
assigned yesterday. Liabilities, 81, 800
assets unknown.
Near Laurinburg. day before yester-
day, Miss Flora Jones was in buggy
with her father. The horse ran away,
Miss Jones was thrown out, caught In
the wheel, rnnd killed.
The Governors Guard hoped all day
that the rain would cease and that there
would be indications OF better weather,
but as neither happened they reluc-
family abandoned their plan of leaving
for Richmond this afternoon.
The citizens of Newberne held n mass
meeting tonight to discuss "A plan Of
subscribing TO build railway from that
place to Wilmington.
At Goldsboro' coroner's jury, after
many days session and careful inquiry
as TO the assassination Of Robert Pad
gett, has rendered a verdict that he was
murdered by some unknown person.
Two men, in Jail under suspicion of
being concerned in the crime, have been
released.
A new steamer, the Enola, has been
put by the Clyde Line on the route to
Newberne, in place Of the George IL.
Stout, recently burned there.
Advices from Wilmington are to the
effect that the people there are practi-
cally unanimous In favOring the issue
of $4,000 in bonds to the Cape-Fear
and Yadkin-Valley railway to secure its
extension there. The matter will soon
be voted on. The people appear to be
sanguine OF securing the road
Recently the sheriff of Sampson
county was enjoined from collecting the
special railway tax on $4,000 in bonds
issued by the township of Clinton in
and Of the Warsaw and Clinton railway.
The matter has come before Judge
Phillips at Chambers. He sustsins the
injunction. The railway company has
appealed to the Supreme Court. The
Wilmington and Weldon Railway Com
pany operates this road.
Torrents of rain fell yesterday and
last night and again to-day. and at no
time this year has the weather been
more disagreeable. 1t is severe on all
the fairs. 1t is said to be the worst
weather on record in October usually
q perfect month throughout.
Two thousand tons of rail will be at
Wilmington in a day or two for the
railway from Monroe, n. c.. to Allan
ia, Ga, Of which a twenty-six-mile sec
ton viii be completed, it is expected,
in about sixty days. A cargo of rail for
the Carolina Central railway has just
arrived at Wilmington.
The Black Creek Primitive Baptist
Association, at Princeton, adjourned
day before yesterday. -Four thousand
persons attended the meeting.
The weather has almost swamped the
colOred fair here. The attendance is
very small. To-day an address was de-
lvercd by J. A. Pegues, of Richmond.
Streams are very full and rising
rapidly. Damaging freshets are OK.
pected, and there may be washouts on
the railways.
The cotton-seed oil-mills here are
now in active operation. They are of
greater capacity than the Old ones,
which were burned last March. About
$500 tons of seed are on hand. Seed
have fallen in price from % to IS cents
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